Italian researchers found that semi-transparent solar panels over olive groves increased olive yields by 12%, reduced water evaporation by 19%, generated clean electricity, and even improved olive oil quality. 🌿⚡🫒 #Agrivoltaics #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #ClimateSolutions

European summers aren't what they used to be! Grey curve is the climate of 1950-90. Every coloured line is a summer since 1991. Every one since 2005 sits beyond the 95th percentile of the curve. This isn't a shifting #climate. It's already a new one! 🤯🥵 Plot inspired by Barriopedro et al. 2011

A ver cómo os explico la evolución del capitalismo...

Was also shocked at statistics for Israel so checked, to find “Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Jews and Israeli Arabs” have child poverty rates of nearly 50% - that’s catastrophic! Underlying that must be huge disparities in living stds amongst the population & what having constant civil war does

After years of austerity and real wage cuts UK child poverty rate is higher than in most European countries. Poverty, poor food, housing, healthcare, insecurity, anxiety triggers irreversible premature ageing. What future?

Childhood Poverty Rates in OECD Countries Are As High As 30%

This ranking of the poverty rates of children in OECD countries shows that Costa Rica has the highest child poverty rate, while Finland has the lowest.

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Must-know numbers in human genetics -- As many of you know, I'm writing a free online textbook in human genetics. In this blog post I cover a key skill for genome scientists from that book: how to use mental math to figure out key genome properties. jkpritchard.substack.com/p/on-fermi-p...

On Fermi Problems in Human Genetics

and some very useful numbers about human genomes to get you started!

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Huge faculty recruitment effort at the University of Chicago -- a division-wide, open-rank search looking to hire about 20 faculty across 5 research areas in biology. Come be our colleague! Full announcement: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ckih9zv3rj...

Bulldozers tearing up Big Bend National Park, just downriver from Santa Elena Canyon. This is a crime scene. IG: @ laiken_jordahl

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Compare *this* 2007 Telegraph piece that declares: “Too many journalists & scientists built careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers staked their reputation on it. The death of this theory will be painful & ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong.”

Hoe de vorige minister van Defensie, Brekelmans en de huidige Yesilgoz in het narratief van Rusland trapte over Ceuta. Poetin kan met die twee VVD prominenten achter over leunen

Russia-linked accounts spread far-right narrative online during Ceuta migration crisis, analysis finds

Counter-disinformation group says social media channels connected to Pravda network helped amplify message

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Do you want to hazard a guess at what this “jaw-dropping” list of freebies included? What luxuries asylum seekers might be being given “for free” in Thetford? Xboxes? Plasma TVs? iPhones? Ferraris? Let's take a look👀 🧵 1/22

Notable that all the major news media outlets in England describe these attacks on Police and homes as 'protests'. An organised gang of yobs and thugs set on illegally removing someone from their home is terrorism. #BBC #Sky #ITV #NewsMedia

paulusthewoodgnome@paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 2d ago

I've got to be honest. Until now, I simply haven't registered the shocking far-right thuggery in Thetford. Partly my fault, no doubt but also, it feels like it's not had the headlines that would have been guaranteed not that long ago. Is this becoming the new abnormal? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What’s not to love about the Mediterranean life?

Thomas Fortenberry@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 2d ago

Averaging over 104 F per day is not in any way normal.

many professors are calling it 'the least surprising result of all time'

Dan Silverman@dmsilverman.bsky.social · 2d ago

New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching

At 4:30 AM, Republicans confirmed Trump’s Attorney General: - Trump’s personal lawyer - Refused to release the Epstein Files - Pushed for a $1.8 billion slush fund for Trump allies - Gave Trump tax audit immunity - Pledged to block abortion access nationwide

James Talarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves. And it worked.

"It’s especially strange given that Mr. McConnell continues to make votes. Oh, yes! You read that right. As reported this afternoon by Tyler Spence of NOTUS, Sen. McConnell was able to cast tie-breaking votes today in the Senate Agriculture Committee." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/the-curiou...

The Curious Disappearance of Mitch McConnell

Not seen in public since June 14th.

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Ojo, ni se te ocurra criticar el genocidio en Palestina que te conviertes automáticamente en antisemita. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸🍉

EFE Noticias@efe.com · 4d ago

Colonos queman varias casas y agreden a niños palestinos en la oscarizada Masafer Yatta.

www.nbcnews.com/science/spac...

Environmental groups challenge FCC approval of startup’s plan to beam on-demand sunlight from space

While the FCC approved only a single test mission, the groups argue it could pave the way for a much larger constellation of satellites in the future.

nbcnews.com

We're hiring an ecologist at UC Berkeley! The Dept. of Integrative Biology is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Ecology. Plants/algae, invertebrates, microbes, or marine systems a priority. Come join us!! Apply by Oct 5, 2026. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489 PS: Please share!

Assistant Professor –Ecology- Integrative Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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"EVERY SINGLE English water body is polluted with toxic chemicals" I knew things were bad, but this beggars belief @andyburnham.bsky.social you must take swift and immediate action to tackle this latest assault on English nature www.theguardian.com/environment/...

All bodies of water in England polluted with toxic chemicals, official data shows

Environment Agency assessments find just 14.3% of country’s surface waters in good ecological status

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“The new gas-burning plant, if built to specifications, would be permitted to release more planet-warming gases than any other power plant in the country.”

New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.

nytimes.com

From a few days ago: locally acquired dengue in Northern Virginia. Limited local spread has been reported elsewhere in (southern) USA. We expect diseases to shift as climate change progresses, including insect-borne diseases as disease-carrying insects become established in new regions.

VDH Identifies a Locally Acquired Case of Dengue Virus Infection in Northern Virginia Resident - Clinicians

VDH Identifies a Locally Acquired Case of Dengue Virus Infection in a Northern Virginia Resident  August 4, 2026 Dear Colleague,   In collaboration with the Fairfax County and Loudoun County Health De...

vdh.virginia.gov

Lianmeng (2026-07 preprint, Research Square) On the Origin of Paraphyletic Groups, Their Relationships with Monophyletic Groups, and Their Status in Phylogenetics: A Topological Analysis Based on Root Phylogenetic Systematics (RPS) www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1...

What does ecosystem collapse look like? This heathland wildfire was extreme in extent & the fact that the organic soil layer was burnt through over large areas This constrains recovery & as wind and heavy winter rain erodes the soil further we could get complete loss of vegetation & bare sand

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